Overspeeding, crowded vans under court scanner; says no lessons learnt from school bus accident
Overspeeding and overcrowded school vans have come under the scanner of the Delhi court which has observed that no lessons have been learnt from the 1997 accident in which a school bus fell into the Yamuna river from Wazirabad bridge killing 28 children and leaving 60 injured. The court said overspeeding of school buses, packed with children, is a common sight till date despite the Supreme Court's 1997 guidelines for their safe plying. "Despite the Supreme Court having taken cognizance and laid down certain guidelines and the Central Board of Secondary Education having issued the circulars, a lot still remains to be done in so far as the implementation of the same by the various agencies including the police and school authorities are concerned," the court said. The court also took note of the mechanical inspection report and said that the size of tyres had been changed to increase the speed of the bus carrying children, particularly on an elevation over the bridge of the river and the investigation as to who was responsible for getting the same done was totally lacking.
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